Only in America: The O.J. Simpson saga [See previous post: Isabelle Huppert & Moonlight among Nsfc winners.] The National Society of Film Critics' Best Non-Fiction Film was Ezra Edelman's five-part Espn Films documentary O.J.: Made in America, about the trials (there were two) and tribulations of disgraced all-American football player and sometime movie actor O.J. Simpson (The Towering Inferno, The Naked Gun: From the Files of the Police Squad!). In 1994, Simpson was accused of murdering his former wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ronald Lyle Goldman in Los Angeles' Brentwood neighborhood. The ensuing trial became one of the ugliest – and most popular – all-American circuses of the second half of the 20th century. With the assistance of a high-profile defense team, Simpson was acquitted of the murders, but at a follow-up civil trial he was found liable for Brown Simpson's and Goldman's wrongful deaths. Years later, in 2008, he would be convicted of and imprisoned for several felonies unrelated to the 1994 murders.
- 1/9/2017
- by Mont. Steve
- Alt Film Guide
"Death will take you as you sleep! A sleep as deep as Death!" Barbara Steele doesn't realize that her husband is using her to recover a forbidden sexual thrill. Riccardo Freda's film plays games with Alfred Hitchcock's filmography, but it also generates a Euro-horror spell like no other. Outrageous in 1962, it was a Technicolor ode to funereal surrealism. New in this review -- a crazy theory that might upend story assumptions about L'orribile segreto del Dr. Hichcock. The Horrible Dr. Hichcock Blu-ray Olive Films 1962 / Color / 1:78 widescreen / 77 88 min. / Street Date September 13, 2016 / L'orribile segreto del Dr. Hichcock; Raptus The Secret of Dr. Hichcock, The Terror of Dr. Hichcock / available through the Olive Films website / 29.98 Starring Barbara Steele, Robert Flemyng, Montgomery Glenn (SIlvano Tranquili), Teresa Fitzgerald (Maria Teresa Vianello), Harriet White (Harriet White Medin), Spencer Williams, All Christianson, Evar SImpson, Nat Harley. Cinematography Donald Green (Rafaele Masciocchi) Film Editor Donna Christie...
- 9/12/2016
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
The Black List has announced a live staged reading of Trey Ellis’s script “Holy Mackerel!” – the riveting true story of the rise and fall of the pioneering all-black sitcom ‘Amos ‘n’ Andy – with Mykelti Williamson as Spencer Williams, David Alan… Continue Reading →...
- 9/12/2016
- by shadowandact
- ShadowAndAct
Every week we dive into the cream of the crop when it comes to home releases, including Blu-ray and DVDs, as well as recommended deals of the week. Check out our rundown below and return every Tuesday for the best (or most interesting) films one can take home. Note that if you’re looking to support the site, every purchase you make through the links below helps us and is greatly appreciated.
The New World (Terrence Malick)
Terrence Malick is a filmmaker who has always valued photogenic artistry over narrative thrust, content to let his stories and characters wash over the audience like a crashing wave. There are few directors who indulge in such visual splendor, his creative aphorism seemingly being beauty for the sake of beauty. For Lubezki’s first collaboration with the director, The New World, it was also an opportunity for him to shoot (at least partially) on 65mm.
The New World (Terrence Malick)
Terrence Malick is a filmmaker who has always valued photogenic artistry over narrative thrust, content to let his stories and characters wash over the audience like a crashing wave. There are few directors who indulge in such visual splendor, his creative aphorism seemingly being beauty for the sake of beauty. For Lubezki’s first collaboration with the director, The New World, it was also an opportunity for him to shoot (at least partially) on 65mm.
- 7/26/2016
- by The Film Stage
- The Film Stage
New York's Film Forum presents a new 4K restoration of Akira Kurosawa's Ran (1985) from February 26 through March 3, but first, starting on Friday, Chris Marker's A.K., also from 1985 and also restored, sees a week-long run. More goings on: Lizzie Borden's Born in Flames and Regrouping at Anthology Film Archives, witches at Bam, Oscar Micheaux and Spencer Williams at Film Forum, Ernie Gehr at MoMA, Alexander Mackendrick in Paris, Sergei Eisenstein and Jacques Tati in London and what to see at the Glasgow Film Festival. » - David Hudson...
- 2/17/2016
- Keyframe
New York's Film Forum presents a new 4K restoration of Akira Kurosawa's Ran (1985) from February 26 through March 3, but first, starting on Friday, Chris Marker's A.K., also from 1985 and also restored, sees a week-long run. More goings on: Lizzie Borden's Born in Flames and Regrouping at Anthology Film Archives, witches at Bam, Oscar Micheaux and Spencer Williams at Film Forum, Ernie Gehr at MoMA, Alexander Mackendrick in Paris, Sergei Eisenstein and Jacques Tati in London and what to see at the Glasgow Film Festival. » - David Hudson...
- 2/17/2016
- Fandor: Keyframe
Below you will find our favorite films of the 45th International Film Festival Rotterdam, as well as an index of our coverage.Daniel Kasmantop Picksi. Lejos de los árboles, Le Moulin, Female Student Guerilla, Noche de vino tintoII. Juke: Passages from Films of Spencer Williams, Warsaw Bridge, MotherIII. Night and Fog in the ZonaIV. Where the Chocolate Mountains, ElliV. Operation Avalanche, Sixty Six, Fata Morgana, Cada vez que..., Oleg y las raras artes, ActeonCOVERAGEFirst Steps: Ear, Nose and Throat (Kevin Jerome Everson), Lejos de los árboles (Jacinto Esteva Grewe)Acting Out: General Report II: The New Abduction of Europe (Pere Portabella), Esquizo (Ricardo Bofill), Actor Martinez (Mike Ott, Nathan Silver)Japan's Cinematic Revolutionary: Sex Game (Masao Adachi), Female Student Guerilla (Masao Adachi), Artist of Fasting (Masao Adachi)The Streets, the Mountains, the Snow, and the Ocean: Noche de vino tinto (José María Nunes), Where the Chocolate Mountains (Pat O'Neill), Cinéma...
- 2/7/2016
- by Notebook
- MUBI
In this era of digital cameras and laptop editing, ambitious video essays and filmmaker documentaries are hardly the uncommon encounter they had been when Claire Denis made her film for the Cinéma, de notre temps television series, Jacques Rivette - Le veilleur—a movie on a lot of our minds with the passing of the New Wave master last week. Yet, as with fiction films, while the increased democratization and affordability of movie-making apparatus has meant more such essays and more such documentaries, the quality of this greater proliferation varies widely. Which is why it was such a pleasure to come in Rotterdam across two stupendous examples of each: Night and Fog in the Zona, Jung Sung-il's long-form documentary on Chinese independent filmmaker Wang Bing, and Juke: Passages from the Films of Spencer Williams, American teacher and filmmaker Thom Andersen’s video essay on the culturally forgotten films by the African American director.
- 2/5/2016
- by Daniel Kasman
- MUBI
You'll recall just about a year ago when we alerted you to a fundraising campaign to support an ambitious restoration of early works of black cinema in the USA called "Pioneers of African American Cinema" - an effort that would showcase the works of such influential figures as Oscar Micheaux, Spencer Williams, Zora Neale Hurston, James and Eloyce Gist, and others, in a digitally-restored package of films that includes 8 feature films, several shorts, fragments of "lost" films, and rare documentary footage. Context would be provided by videotaped interviews with film historians, performing artists, archivists, and filmmakers, who will discuss the...
- 2/5/2016
- by Tambay A. Obenson
- ShadowAndAct
You'll recall just about a year ago when we alerted you to a fundraising campaign to support an ambitious restoration of early works of black cinema in the USA called "Pioneers of African American Cinema" - an effort that would showcase the works of such influential figures as Oscar Micheaux, Spencer Williams, Zora Neale Hurston, James and Eloyce Gist, and others in a digitally-restored package of films that includes 8 feature films, several shorts, fragments of "lost" films, and rare documentary footage. Context would beprovided by videotaped interviews with film historians, performing artists, archivists, and filmmakers, who will discuss the...
- 1/21/2016
- by Tambay A. Obenson
- ShadowAndAct
Starting this week during the spring quarter on every Tuesday until May 31st, the Doc Film Society at the University of Chicago will screen a black film series of mainly rarely seen Hollywood produced black films and independently made “race” movies of the 1940′s: White on Black: Hollywood and Black Cinema
Some of the films in the series will include Spencer Williams’ Go Down Death (1944), Oscar Micheaux’s Within Our Gates(1920) and his gangtser film Underworld (1937) King Vidor’s MGM film (1929, one of the first sound films made) and Reet, Petite and Gone with the true innovator, and who many, perhaps rightly, claim was the real creator of “rock and roll”, Louis Jordan (1947)
And rumor has it that a certain annoying pest (better known as me) will host and introduce a few of the films in the series. All the films will start at 7Pm at Doc Films’ Max Palevsky...
Some of the films in the series will include Spencer Williams’ Go Down Death (1944), Oscar Micheaux’s Within Our Gates(1920) and his gangtser film Underworld (1937) King Vidor’s MGM film (1929, one of the first sound films made) and Reet, Petite and Gone with the true innovator, and who many, perhaps rightly, claim was the real creator of “rock and roll”, Louis Jordan (1947)
And rumor has it that a certain annoying pest (better known as me) will host and introduce a few of the films in the series. All the films will start at 7Pm at Doc Films’ Max Palevsky...
- 3/31/2011
- by Sergio
- ShadowAndAct
I hate to admit that but we’ve been lax at S & A. I was at the post office this afternoon and saw This, a new stamp in the Usps Black Heritage series honoring filmmaking pioneer Oscar Micheaux. I had no idea about this. Did you?
The stamp was introduced and issued on June 22 in a ceremony in New York. Of course, I don’t expect the mainstream media be on top of this, but the black media should have been. This is important, if I do say so myself. Without Micheaux there wouldn’t have been a black cinema in America or in the world. No Gordon Parks. No Gordon Parks Jr. No Spencer Williams. No Allan and Albert Hughes. No Julie Dash. No Michael Schulz or Spike Lee. No George Tillman. No Gina Prince-Bythewood. No Charles Burnett And yes even no Tyler Perry either. No, not even those...
The stamp was introduced and issued on June 22 in a ceremony in New York. Of course, I don’t expect the mainstream media be on top of this, but the black media should have been. This is important, if I do say so myself. Without Micheaux there wouldn’t have been a black cinema in America or in the world. No Gordon Parks. No Gordon Parks Jr. No Spencer Williams. No Allan and Albert Hughes. No Julie Dash. No Michael Schulz or Spike Lee. No George Tillman. No Gina Prince-Bythewood. No Charles Burnett And yes even no Tyler Perry either. No, not even those...
- 7/2/2010
- by Sergio
- ShadowAndAct
Multi-award winning Foothill Music Theatre presents the hilarious Off-Broadway musical comedy hit, Bat Boy, The Musical. This campy, off-the-wall parody inspired by a supermarket tabloid story of a half-boy, half-bat keeps both tongue and fang firmly in cheek. The exuberant score mixes rock, Broadway, gospel, and country music in a smart, witty, self-aware comical confection. Award-winning director Jay Manley helms this fabulous cult hit with musical direction by Spencer Williams, and choreography by Andrew Ceglio (also the production's star). The talented cast of Bat Boy, The Musical includes Andrew Ceglio as both Bat Boy and the production choreographer (credits include Pippin at Foothill Music Theatre, Marquee Productions at Childrens Musical Theater San Jose, Theater on San Pedro, and Forever Plaid at Cabrillo Stage as director and choreographer); Kateri McRae returns to the Foothill stage as Bat Boy's young love, Shelley (previously seen as Mae in Foothill Music Theatre's The Pajama Game,...
- 1/17/2009
- BroadwayWorld.com
Multi-award winning Foothill Music Theatre presents the hilarious Off-Broadway musical comedy hit, Bat Boy, The Musical. This campy, off-the-wall parody inspired by a supermarket tabloid story of a half-boy, half-bat keeps both tongue and fang firmly in cheek. The exuberant score mixes rock, Broadway, gospel, and country music in a smart, witty, self-aware comical confection. Award-winning director Jay Manley helms this fabulous cult hit with musical direction by Spencer Williams, and choreography by Andrew Ceglio (also the production's star). Bat Boy, The Musical plays February 27 (press opening February 28, 8pm & March 1, 2pm) through March 22, 2009 at the Lohman Theatre at Foothill College in Los Altos Hills. For tickets ($18-26) and information, the public may visit www.foothillmusicals.com, or phone the box office at 650 949-7360. Called "exuberant, campy fun" by the San Francisco Chronicle, Bat Boy, The Musical, ripped from the headlines of The Weekly World News tabloid, is a dark but...
- 1/16/2009
- BroadwayWorld.com
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